OCTOBER 2026 performance Schedule

Oct 2 (Fri) - with HEIDI EVELYN, The Tasting House, Los Gatos, 6-9 PM (1920s-1930s Great American Songbook standards)

OcT 3 (SAT) - NICK ROSSI & HIS SWING FOUR, MONTHLY RESIDENCY, TOP OF THE MARK, MARK HOPKINS HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, 8-11 PM (1930S-1940S STYLE SMALL GROUP SWING - NOW CELEBRATING FOUR YEARS!)

OCt 9 (Fri) - Speaking at REsort-o-Rama, Cover to Cover: A history of mid-century record album design, the flamingo, Santa Rosa, 12:35 pm (Weekend long celebration of Mid-Century Style & Design)

OCt 10 (Sat) - Nick Rossi’s Jazzopaters play Duke Ellington with Special Guests Colin Hancock (New York) and Andrew Oliver (POrtland) presented by the South bay Trad jazz Society, San Jose Woman’s Club, SAN JOSE, 7-10 PM (1920s-1930s jazz age ellington performed by a 10 piece band at a vintage style masquerade ball!) Ticket Link

OCT 11 (Sun) - Andrew olvier with NICK ROSSI’s Far west jazz band, The Deluxe, San FranCisco, 3-6 PM (1920S-19340S STYLE SMALL GROUP hot-to-swing jazz)

OCt 15 (Thu) - with Mikiya Matsuda’s Alcatraz Islanders, Pagan Idol, San Francisco, 8:30 to 11:30 pm(1930S-1950S Hawaiian Swing)

OCt 17 (Sat) - NICK ROSSI & HIS SWING Six, The Bootleggers Ball, San FranCisco, 7-10 PM (1930S-1940S STYLE SMALL GROUP SWING for Dancers)

OCt 21 (WED) - NICK ROSSI TRIO, ACRE kitchen and bar, Oakland, 5:30 to 8:30 PM (1940s-1950s style cocktail combo)

OCT 22 (THU) - NICK ROSSI & HIS SWING FOUR, New MONTHLY RESIDENCY, The Deluxe, San FranCisco, 7-10 PM (1930S-1940S STYLE SMALL GROUP SWING)

Oct 24 (Sat) - NICK ROSSI TRIO, The Tasting House, Los Gatos, 6-9 PM (1940s-1950s style cocktail combo)

Oct 26 (Mon) - NICK ROSSI organ TRIO featuring RAY JACILDO at the Hammond, THe DAWN CLUB, SAN FRANCISCO, 8-11 PM (CLASSIC 1950s-1960s STYLE ORGAN TRIO)

Oct 28 (Wed) - NICK ROSSI and Mikiya Matsuda DUO, The Heyday Harvest, Freight and salvage, Berkeley, 5 PM (CLASSIC jazz in support of this annual event for the Bay Area’s premiere book publisher)

OCT 30 (FRI) - NICK ROSSI Quartet, Mr. Tipple’s Jazz Club, SAN FRANCISCO, 6-8:30 PM (CLASSIC 1950s-1960s STYLE SOUL JAZZ)

Nick Rossi Swing Six live at the Bootleggers Ball, Community Music Center, San Francisco, October 2025

Nick Rossi’s Jazzopaters play Duke Ellington! Live at Mr. Tipple’s Jazz Club, San Francisco, August 2025

Nick Rossi Swing Six live on Treasure Island, San Francisco, February 2023

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Be a ‘39er! Join me, my Swing Six, dance instructor Nathan Dias, and surprise special guests on Saturday, February 17th for a special swing dance event hosted by the Treasure Island Museum commemorating the 85th anniversary of the opening of th
Catch me and my Swing Four the first Saturday of each and every month including *this* Saturday February 3rd at the @topofthemarksf high atop Nob Hill, from 6:30 until 10 PM | 1930s-1940s Swing Era Jazz for your drinking and dancing pleasure #jazz #s
Tonight I begin my second year as the musical director of the annual @noir.city flagship film festival here in the San Francisco Bay Area at the @grandlaketheater Oakland’s historic movie palace. This year Darkness Knows No Borders with 10 days
Last night at the Castro | photo by @billselby1
1930s linen postcard illustration. Original caption: A California Highway - On U.S. Highway 101, near Torrey Pines, Los Angeles to San Diego.
Christmas Eve, 2023 #vintagesanfrancisco #vintagenorthbeach #tonyniks #1933 #1949 #1951
My sincere thanks to pal @eddie_muller8591 for making a whole lot of folks very happy up in Vallejo at the @empresstheatre this past Friday night. A sold out house, preceded by a sold out book signing event. Thanks to everyone at the theater, Renay
This Friday night, December 15th, I will be the emcee at Vallejo Noir presented by the @empresstheatre with special guest @eddie_muller8591 in conversation and introducing “Pitfall” (Regal Films, 1948) on the big screen. It all begins in
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Today is the Barney Kessel Centennial: 100 years of the great Muskogee, Oklahoma born guitar player. From his early years as a true acolyte of Charles Christian, through his immersion in the BeBop vocabulary, and into his development as a master of h
Until next year… #felthatday #1920s #1930s #jcpenny #truevintage #vintagemenswear
Duke Ellington by Carlo Borger, 1935
The Thinker by Hiromu Kira, circa 1930, photo of man seated on the stepped concrete side of the Mulholland Dam, Los Angeles, Calif.
Catch me and my Swing Four the first Saturday of each and every month including *this* Saturday September 2nd at the @topofthemarksf high atop Nob Hill, from 6:30 until 10 PM | 1930s-1940s Swing Era Jazz for your drinking and dancing pleasure #jazz #
Exterior black glazed ceramic tile detail, the Tulsa Club, Tulsa, Oklahoma, designed by Bruce Goff and constructed in 1927 by the architectural firm Rush, Endacott, and Rush #artdeco #artdecopottery #1920s #vintagetulsa #artdecotulsa #tilemakestheroo
Selection from Paul Colin’s 1927-1929 set of lithographs titled Le Tumulte Noir | these were originally hand colored stencils known as pochoir | the series was inspired by the 1925 show of Harlem entertainers in Paris le Revue Nègre star
I am very pleased to be featuring my special guest the dynamic David Hermlin all the way from Berlin, Germany, as part the Southern California debut of my Swing Six | See you at Irvine’s @atomicballroom on Friday, August 4th #swing
My deepest thanks to everyone who came out to the spectacular @topofthemarksf Top over the weekend to help me and my Swing Four celebrate one year of performances high atop Nob Hill. Saturday night's audience was absolutely wonderful! A very special
Thanks to @mementomoda_ for the glamour shot taken at this year’s Art Deco Preservation Ball presented by the @artdecoca at the @oakparamount | early 1930s evening attire from @relicvintage | 1927 Epiphone Recording Model A banjo and 1934 Epiph